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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Wordless Wednesday Linky Party: Enter at Your Own Risk.

I hope you aren't eating right now. If so, you might wanna sit whatever it is down for a minute.

This WW is yet another example of the cycle of life. And although it's not quite as gross as this one that happened in our backyard (and was one of my first WW posts), it still made little man cringe just a little.

And if it makes little man cringe, you better believe it's gross.

Drum roll please....

Here it is in all it's glory. Can you guess what is eating what?

But before I do the reveal, I wanted to mention that it may or may not be whylittle man got violently ill the next day...

and puked 14 times and looked like this.

OK. Ready? Here is a labeled photo....

Praying mantis is pretty easy to guess, but did you know that it was eating a grasshopper? While Little Man held him he never let it go and it gobbled the entire thing except for a foot (which FYI: I didn't stick around to see). Check out the guts of the grasshopper on little man's finger above. Yes, EEEeeeewww. Agreed.

If you have stuck with me through this whole post I thank you.

And I apologize for so many words lately, but I must tell you that these are not things that I would normally be drawn to, but it is my fate as a mother of a child with an intellectual appetite bigger than I know what to do with. And although it is exceptionally disgusting and maybe better to be oblivious to such feedings, I am thankful that little man is so passionate about life around him and helps me see the world in a new light. The end.

Oh, and don't forget to stop by tomorrow for the first ever PROJECT SMILE party!! Can't wait to see all your smiles.

Thanks for stopping by. Time to get this party started. Add your link below and then head over to some of my other bloggy friends... Kristi at Live and Love Out Loud, Amanda at Parenting For Dummies who replaced my bloggy friend Angie at seven clown circus (she'll be missed), and Susan & Janice at 5 minutes for mom.

99 comments:

OMG, that is unbelievable. What is MOST unbelievable is that Little Man held the thing in his HANDS the whole time!!! Woah. Unreal.Sorry he got sick, poor guy. You KNOW you have my sympathy on all the pucking!Luv from SimonePS I have linked up our fun photos from yesterday... spring here feels like SUMMER!!

Wow! I was a country boy and thought I had done it all as a kid. Mmmmm. but your son's got me beat. I picked up up a praying mantis, but not while it was eating. Egad! I'm sure he will have a fun memory to tell when he's grown.David/ Tropical Texana/ Houston

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Oh Man I really don't know how you do it. Just looking at the pictures I am freaking out, I can't imagine seeing it in real life. UGH. Thanks for sharing. Included you in my linky this week and of course I will always continue to link up :) xo

Cool! (except for the guts, but I hate to say what I think it is!) Did your son have a scratch from where the mantis was holding on to him? I hope he is much better by now. We should send some of this gory stuff to Stephen King, maybe he would write a book about the scary lives of mom (& grandma) bloggers! What do you think? ;DFaythe @GMT

Um, yep, yuck! Would you believe that it's not the first time that I've seen that? My daughter, being the budding young scientist, did something similar, but I could never capture it on film that well. While the subject may be ick!, the photos are excellent!

Wow. More than disgusted, I'm impressed with Little Man for holding onto that thing for so long. And how cool would it have been had the praying mantis been eating one of those caterpillars that have green blood?!

I thought boys loved this sort of thing. Gross!! Sorry he has the stomach flu (I mean you can't let him have the reputation of getting sick over a bug eating a bug). If it's a male praying mantis, he'll get killed soon by his mate. Talk about Women's Lib. lol

Can't blame the bugs for the illness... do hope he feels better. It was pretty cool and brave of him to hang on to the praying mantis while it dined. I agre with Lisa Gross and yet totally fascinating! I haven't seen a Praying Mantis in years... I take it as a sign of good luck!

Ok that praying mantis is really going to town on that grasshopper! Really gross yet your pictures are really great and I can't help but look LOL. I hope your son is feeling better and feeling 100% again, so he can go back outside and catch more critters. Have great week!